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Morocco remains the first market for US armament industry in North Africa, with sales amounting to $244 million in 2016. Moroccan media reports said that US weapons represent 96% of Moroccan weapon acquisitions in 2016 compared to 100% ($274 million) in 2015. Morocco, which earmarks 3% of its GDP to military expenditures, has an army […]
King Mohammed VI’s visit to Guinea Conakry was postponed until January 2018 instead of December 20, Moroccan media reported. This friendship and working visit to Conakry is the third by King Mohammed VI since President Alpha Condé took office. During his stay in Conakry, the King will hold talks with Guinean President Alpha Condé, the […]
Morocco’s Khalladi wind power plant, built in the North of the Kingdom, has started producing its first electricity, which it injected into the local power grid. The wind farm, developed by ACWA Power in collaboration with ARIF investment fund, is the first private renewable energy project in the country. It has been developed under a […]
King Mohammed VI is expected in Guinea Conakry on December 20, in a second visit in 2017. During his friendship and working visit to Conakry, the King will hold talks with Guinean President Alpha Condé, the current Chairman of the African Union. The two leaders will inaugurate several projects that were launched during the King’s […]
Morocco is part of the ministerial delegation set up by the Arab League to carry out diplomatic and media actions meant to oppose the negative impacts of the US President’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and to move the US embassy in Israel to the holy city. The Arab league announced the formation […]
The 52nd summit of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) wrapped up with a political decision regarding Morocco’s membership providing for the setting up of a committee to further study the impact of the admission of the North African Kingdom in the economic bloc. The committee will be presided by the heads of […]
A draft bill has been elaborated by the Moroccan government to back up its liquefied natural gas projects, as the north African Kingdom aims to bring the share of LNG to 13% of its energy mix by 2025. The draft bill sets the guidelines for establishing a tariff system for a natural gas market that […]
Cooper Pharma, a Moroccan pharmaceutical company launched works to build a $6-million plant at the Kigali Special Economic Zone. The plant, which was supported by Rwanda Development Bank, is part of the deals signed during King Mohammed VI visit to Kigali, in October 2016. The plant will locally produce drugs that include beta-lactam antibiotics in […]
Morocco’s exports of handicrafts exceeded 622 million dirhams between January and November 2017, Minister in charge of the sector Jamila El Mossali said. Local media reported that El Mossali said at the launch of the national handicrafts fair to run till 31 December, 2017 that the sector employs 2.5 million people and represents 7% of […]
Moroccan authorities continued their unabated crackdown on terrorists in 2017 with the busting of nine terror cells and the arrest of 189 extremists and 20 returning foreign fighters. These figures were revealed by the chief of Morocco’s counter-terrorism agency, the Central Bureau for Judicial Investigations (BCIJ), Abdelhak Khiame who said that the total number of […]